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Work Skills Keeping Up?

Tony Karrer

In New Work and New Work Skills , I discuss the fact that most of us have not participated in formal learning since college on foundational knowledge work skills - especially metacognitive skills. Our work skills cannot sit still. We are struggling to keep up.

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ASTD Follow-Up

Tony Karrer

Work Literacy eLearning 2.0 Fourth Grader Wikipedia Update New Work and New Work Skills Work Skills Keeping Up? Can a highly regulated and slow to change Insurance Industry adapt these new methods of learning? Could you please discuss methods for encouraging users to use collaborative methods?

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Too Much Information or a Skills Gap

Tony Karrer

All of these represent potential metacognitive tools and methods. It's really that we need to adapt to new methods and tools. It's a big skills, knowledge, performance gap – see Work Skills Keeping Up. It's why I created Work Literacy about a year ago. I’m overwhelmed just looking at these choices!

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Tool Set 2009

Tony Karrer

I thought I'd kick off this year by posting a series of posts on topics related to tools and methods for work and learning. What are the most important methods to adopt in addition to the tools? Should twitter be part of your tool set? What should be in your tool set? So, here goes. What is a Tool Set?

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Learned about Learning in 2009

Tony Karrer

I’m convinced that we are all struggling to have our Work Skills Keep Up. When I look at my particular skills, methods and tools for 2009 and compare them to 2008, I would say that it’s mostly a question of degree of use and certainly my use of Twitter has grown. If you think about it, Twitter, Blog Comments, etc.

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Personal in Personal Knowledge Management

Tony Karrer

Great dialog between Harold Jarche and Stephen Downes around Harold's PKM process … Stephen Downes wrote in response: … what does the concept of a ‘method’ here imply? In fact, Work Literacy is pretty much this topic. That there is a ‘best’ way to manage knowledge an information? Isn’t that what we’ve learned there isn’t ?

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Top-Down Strategy

Tony Karrer

What methods and tools do I use for that task? I make sure to identify how my roles and projects fit with the tools and methods that I use. Aside - Speaking of Spring Break plans, does someone want a workshop in an exotic location over spring break? For each role and project, I ask myself: What are the key tasks?